Mold for concrete burial-vaults.



. J. DEMURESTl MOLD FOR CONCRETE BURIAL vAULTs.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 1, 1908.

Patented July 20, 190.9.`

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MILON J. DEMOREST, OF BELDING, MICHIGAN.

MOLD FOR CONCRETE BURIALl-VAULTS;

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led June 1, 1908.

Patentedy July 20,1909.

Serial No. 436,032.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MILON J. DEMoREsT, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Belding, in the county of Ionia and State ofMichigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Molds forConcrete Burial-Vaults and I do hereby de- Clare the following to be afull, clear., and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same.

My invention relates to improvements in molds 'for concrete burialvaults and its object is to provide mold walls adapted to be adjustedfor different sizes of caskets and to be conveniently utilized informing a concrete inclosure for a casket placed therein, and to providethe device with various new and useful features, hereinafter more fullydescribed and particularly pointed out in the claims, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1. is a perspective of one side and one end of a device embodyingmy invention with a portion broken away to show the construction, Fig.2. a transverse section of my device together with the inclosing box fora casket; the concrete surrounding the same; and the adjacent earth, allshown in vertical transverse section of the device; and, Fig. 3, a planview of the device alone assembled for use.

Like numbers refer to like parts in all of the gures.

The moldlwalls are wedge shaped in vertical section having a sharp loweredge adapted to penetrate the earth and to be he d thereby againstlateral displacement, and each consists of two sides and two ends of anyconvenient dimensions, each being formed of two outside liat plates,preferably of sheet metal, joined at their lower edges and divergingupward away from each other, being spaced apart at their up er edges andhaving therebetween wedge siaped end closures 3, and stay strips 2 atintervals to hold the plates apart when under pressure, the upper striforming a top closure. These sides and en s thus form wedge-shaped wallshaving a thin edge at the bottom ada ted to be forced downward into theearth elow the excavation therein and held thereby, and are alsoprovided with handles 5 at the upper edges attached to the u per staystrip 2.

When adjuste for use each side and end overlaps the adjacent side or endat one end,

and extends more or less into a recess in the earth at the corner of thegrave, and at the other end abuts against the adjacent side or end, andis detachably connected therewith at the upper corner by a spring hook4. The inner plate of each wall is preferably adjusted vertical, and thewalls of the grave inclined outward to correspond to the divergence ofthe plates. This wedge shape of the walls of the mold thus permits oftheir ready withdrawal from between the earth and the concrete, andforms a vertical and smooth outer surface to the concrete.

In using this device it is first placed in the grave as indicated and aportion of the concrete s read on the earth at the bottom of the mol)d,and the box 6 to contain the casket placed thereon. The concrete is thenfilled in between the box 6 and the mold walls to near the top of thebox, and after the casket is placed in the box and the cover placedthereon, the remainder of the concrete 7 is laced in the mold thus fullyinclosing the ox and casket within the concrete. After the concrete hashardened, the molds can be readily withdrawn upward by means of thehandles 5 and the grave filled in.

What I claim is:

l. A mold for concrete burial vaults, comprising wedge shaped wallshaving their lower edges adapted to be inserted in the earth below theexcavation therein and held in place thereby and detachably secured toeach other at the top only, and a hook vertically detachable on the topof one end of each mold and adapted to engage the top of the adjacentwall.

2. A mold for concrete burial vaults, comprising four walls wedge sha edvertically and having their lower edges a apted to penetrate the earthbelow the excavation therein and be held thereby, means for securing thewalls to each other at the top, and means for withdrawing the wallsvertically from between the earth and the concrete.

3. A mold for concrete burial vaults, comprising four walls wedge shapedvertically and each adapted at the lower edge to penetrate theearth-below the excavation therein to be held thereby, a hook on the topof each wall adapted to detachably engage the top of the adjacent walland handles on the uper edge of each wall to withdraw the wall frombetween the earth and the concrete.

4L. A mold for concrete burial vaults, comprising ends and sides eachconsisting of a pair of plates attached to each other at the Intestimony whereof I aHX my signature otiprn divernlg upwarddandspaedapglt in presence of two witnesses. at t e top, en c osures an a top eosure e- ,f Y tween said plates, spacing; strips alsobe- MILON J'DEMOREST' 5 tween the plates, a hook on one end of the Y Witnesses:

topY Closure 12,0e11gageV the adj aeent side 0r VRIGHT KERR, end,andlandles on the top closure. W. R. RAMSEY.

